Zeno Clash Dev: PC Gamers Are More Open to Trying Weird Games

Posted 07/30/2010 at 1:13am | by Nathan Grayson

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And we're not talking weird as in “Japanese pornographic PC game weird.” (At least, we really hope we're not.) Instead, we're talking good weird. Zeno Clash weird. For the uninitiated, Zeno Clash was a first-person brawler in which you explored a strange, colorful world and beat the stuffing out of its inhabitants, many of whom were bird people. And it was awesome. So anyway, we're fairly sure ACE Team co-founder Carlos Bordeu knows a thing or two about weird games, and he's willing to wager that you do too.

"I don't know whether it was because most people had already played Zeno Clash on PC, or that the console game launched a year later, but we definitely had much stronger sales on PC than on Xbox 360," he said of Zeno Clash's console port to Eurogamer.

"Zeno Clash was definitely weirder than most games, and it would be absurd to think that didn't put-off some people. PC players are maybe more open to trying weird games - games that aren't so mass market. But I don't know that I'd put it as harshly as PC gamers are smart and console gamers are stupid," he added.

In other words, it's a case of different strokes for different folks. Really though, even with as many off-the-wall indie titles as the PC has in its loony bin, we can't forget console gamers' favorite big old ball of crazy, Katamari Damacy. And how about Nintendo's toilet-paper unrolling, dog paw-shaking WarioWare series? Really, if anything, we're just glad that there are plenty of oddballs yucking it up on both sides of the great divide. In a gaming landscape dominated by gray shooters, brown shooters, and the occasional gray-brown shooter, it's comforting to know that plenty of color still exists if you just know where to look.